daylight savings is the best

we're all smiles over here

Daylight savings is responsible for an increase in heart attacks, decrease in work productivity, and a huge surge of crankiness among everyone. Suffice to say, springing forward is never a good idea ... except this year.

Before this past Sunday, Clay was on a 6:30 pm bedtime routine. Which, I know, was no real cause for complaint. But it did definitely put a damper on dinner - we were eating the early bird special there for a while, nodding to the over-60s beside us - and our already small social life.

So this daylight savings really came to the rescue. Now our baby is going to bed at 7:30, and we're all sleeping in till 7:30! Life is pretty good when you look at it through that lens.

-Scott

Note From Eleanor: Not buying this argument. Daylight savings is still Ben Franklin's worst idea.

sleep is overrated

Wishful thinking 

The great, late Warren Zevon sang, “I'll sleep when I'm dead,” a line I'm assuming was inspired by being a first time parent.

It's estimated parents lose roughly 350 hours of sleep within the first 24 months of a newborn's life, which literally makes me sleepy. The one thing people kept telling me when they found out we were expecting was, “Enjoy your sleep now.” I hated hearing it, despite discovering later they were right.

But some nights are better than others. And I look at it as bonding time. I’m away from the house most of the day, and so that moment around four o’clock in the morning when I’m rocking him to sleep is one of the few one-on-one times we have. “It don’t matter if I get a little tired, I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”  

Note From Eleanor: I have no idea where this is coming from. I’m the one that gets up with the baby.

*Picture of Clay taken by Kandee Lancaster Photography in Omaha, Nebraska.